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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES
High quality properly funded services must underpin levelling up
By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 30 October 2023
Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton says local government funding needs a reset of business rates growth, a...
FINANCE
Councils are heading for the end of the line
By Andrew Blake-Herbert | 30 October 2023
There’s no time to lose. Financial pressure is mounting on councils and, says Andrew Blake-Herber...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Transforming Belfast: the power of innovation-led prosperity
By Sam Markey | 23 October 2023
By aligning strategy and investment, Belfast is increasingly globally visible as an innovation ec...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Throw a lifeline – business rates reform and high streets renewal
By Jonathan Werran | 02 October 2023
A fringe panel event in Liverpool next week will focus thinking on what system of business taxati...
WHITEHALL
Council finance risk from VOA reclassification
By Struan Walker | 24 August 2023
Council incomes could be hit if a Government agency moves to reclassify asylum hotels as domestic...
FINANCE
A clear medium-term financial plan requires certainty
01 August 2023
Tracy Bingham wonders if many future Best Value failures will be in councils whose circumstances ...
BUSINESS RATES
Government heads off business rates review
By Martin Ford | 21 July 2023
A bid to secure a review of business rates in the House of Lords has failed.
BUSINESS RATES
Combined talents
By Amardeep Gill | 20 June 2023
Combined authorities are the default option for optimal devolution – but Amardeep Gill and Jonath...
WHITEHALL
Councils call for ministers to think 'more radically' on short-term lets
By Mark Conrad | 20 June 2023
Whitehall proposals to regulate short-term holiday lets fail to deliver what is needed to tackle ...
FINANCE
The uncertainty principle
By Sir Stephen Houghton | 13 June 2023
Council finances are fragile after 13 years of cuts and an extended period of uncertainty, and mu...
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Executive Director Children and Education (DCS)
£161,239 - £177,363 plus benefits (with flexibility for an exceptional appointment, up to £190,000)
Build the future. Shape lives. Lead change. Apply for this job
Assistant Director of Technology and Innovation
£115k,, expected to work flexibly with some opportunities for homeworking
We are looking for a strategic leader who can harness the power of technology, data, artificial intelligence and innovation Apply for this job
Service Manager - Corporate Governance Services (Deputy Monitoring Officer)
£47,738 - £51,928
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